Photo By/Credit
Susan White/USFWS
Date Shot/Created
10/11/2012Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
Plastic debris that floated ashore litters a beach on Laysan Island in Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the Pacific. Tides wash the debris ashore from the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,� which flows past the Northwest Hawaiian Islands.
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